Single-player games like Making History: The First World War
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Making History: The First World War, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Making History: The Second World War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.
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Making History: The Great War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.
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Imperiums: Greek Wars
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with Making History: The First World War.
Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!
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Supreme Ruler The Great War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The First World War.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. BattleGoat Studios invites you to travel back to 1914 and select from more than 50 playable regions at the onset of World War I, as European powers struggle to survive and new technologies transform warfare.
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To End All Wars
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Ageod’s To End All Wars is a grand strategy game set during World War One. Players will take control over one of the major powers that so desperately fought for control over Europe and to end all wars.
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Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
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Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with Making History: The First World War.
A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!
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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The First World War.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
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Hearts of Iron IV
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The First World War.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Making History: The First World War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The First World War.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.